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- Vagueness is a fundamental feature of much of human communication, from promises to advertising. New research shows that people prefer vagueness in order to save time, but this can come at a possible cost.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-at-any-age/202409/why-do-people-fall-for-vague-promises
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Feb 8, 1997 · Vagueness is standardly defined as the possession of borderline cases. For example, ‘tall’ is vague because a man who is 1.8 meters in height is neither clearly tall nor clearly non-tall. No amount of conceptual analysis or empirical investigation can settle whether a 1.8 meter man is tall.
Vagueness is an intrinsic part of quantum mechanics, the study of the world at the atomic and subatomic level. In particular, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle tells us that we cannot know exactly both a wave-particle’s position and its momentum (or other given pairs of properties).
May 7, 2021 · Classically, vagueness has been considered something bad. It leads to the Sorites paradox, borderline cases, and the (apparent) violation of the logical principle of bivalence. Nevertheless, there have always been scholars claiming that vagueness is also valuable.
- David Lanius
- 2021
It would surely seem that any acceptable theory of vagueness would have to accommodate the existence of higher-order vagueness. Yet what does the existence of higher-order vagueness say for the hopes of producing a theory of vagueness which is able to say anything precise?
Feb 8, 1997 · Supervaluationists encourage the view that all vagueness is a matter of linguistic indecision: the reason why there are borderline cases is that we have not bothered to make up our minds. The method of supervaluation allows us to assign truth-values prior to any decisions.
When vagueness is characterized in terms of borderline cases, blurred boundaries, and Sorites‐susceptibility, all the main existing types of theory of vagueness can be seen as accommodating vagueness.
This chapter introduces the philosophical concept of vagueness and explains its significance for contemporary philosophy. The concept is seen to give rise to two main problems: the ‘soritic problem’ of finding a solution to the paradoxes of vagueness; and the ‘semantic problem’ of finding a satisfactory semantics and logic for vague ...
